handicraftsman
Americannoun
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of handicraftsman
First recorded in 1545–55; handicraft + 's 1 + man
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He spoke of himself visiting the South Kensington Museum on Saturday nights, "to see the handicraftsman, the wood-worker, the glass-blower, and the worker in metals."
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur
Born in Norfolk, in 1785, he was apprenticed to a joiner, and, becoming a very superior handicraftsman, he rapidly took a prominent position as a maker of agricultural implements.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
The shop-keepers in this and every other town must break and starve: for it is the landed man that maintains the merchant, and shop-keeper, and handicraftsman.
From Political Pamphlets by Saintsbury, George
It would have been better, after all, if he had been apprenticed to a handicraftsman," said the porter's wife, weeping; "for then we could have kept him with us.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
It was still, happily, the age of the handicraftsman; the machinery age was yet to come.
From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Williams, Harrison
The specter of proletarian dependency haunted the lives of the country’s self-reliant handicraftsmen who watched apprehensively as shops employing wage labor began popping up across the country.
From Salon ● May 25, 2012
The Industrial Revolution, which replaced the tools of the independent workmen with machines owned by lenders of capital, had transformed handicraftsmen who were their own bosses into hired hands subject to the orders of managers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the present relatively backward stage of Russian industrial development these are chiefly handicraftsmen, who mainly supply the needs of local consumers.
From Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 by Joseph, Samuel
It was a great boon to secure gratis the assistance of men specially trained as clerks, book-keepers or handicraftsmen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
It seeks to produce cultured handicraftsmen as well as cultured artists and professional men.
From Farm Boys and Girls by McKeever, William Arch
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